Doing this the right way, counting back as it was back in the day. One a day. Discuss it right here. Previous deaths: 100, 99, 98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 91, 90, 89, 88, 87, 86, 85, 84, 83, 82, 81, 80, 79, 78, 77, 76, 75, 74, 73, 72. Enjoy!* # 71 … Continue reading
Name your favorite Simpsons episode, and there’s a good chance Rich Moore directed it. "Cape Feare", "A Streetcar Called Marge", "Flaming Moe’s", "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie", Marge vs. the Monorail"… all of these were overseen by Moore. After several seasons with The Simpsons and a stint on The Critic, Moore became the supervising director … Continue reading
Now that several years’ worth of bad press related to the very bad behavior of its athletes and coaches has reached a flashpoint with Michael Vick’s federal indictment on dogfighting charges, the NFL will turn once again to that paragon of professional virtue, Vince Lombardi, in order to clean up its inherently nasty image (I … Continue reading
Do you have like 90 minutes to kill? If so, you’re in luck – IESB.net has put up the entire Masters of the Web panel from San Diego Comic Con. This was the mega-event that sold out Sunday*, the panel that brought together a dozen web writers to talk about what it’s like to sit … Continue reading
Terrence Howard is soft-spoken but very intense. He’s the sort of guy you naturally lean towards to catch the details of his speech. In part because he’s got enough of an accent that paying close attention is mandatory, but mostly because he knows that he can grab more attention by playing it small rather than … Continue reading
I’m tempted to just cut the questions out of this roundtable with Ridley Scott. At times he’ll just go off on his own and answer his own question. You’ll notice that several times here, not that it makes the answers any less valuable. In fact, it’s amazing to listen to Scott talk about his film. … Continue reading
This article includes much speculation and probable bullshit. It is presented to you as something interesting to consider, and not being presented as anything more than a very vague half-rumor.If you were one of the thousands of fans packed into the room for our Masters of the Web panel on Sunday at San Diego Comic … Continue reading
As there appears to be no review embargo on Michael Davis’s Shoot ‘Em Up (David Poland and Variety‘s Peter Debruge have already weighed in), I’ll come right out and say it: this is the Crank of 2007. And if you didn’t like Crank, well, you can just haul your pinko ass back to Russia, Ivan. … Continue reading
Recently I posted a piece detailing how George Romero and Stuart Gordon would be at Toronto this year with their new films. (Romero, In Toronto, At Midnight) Experienced TIFF attendees might have noticed that there were two films too few to fill out the Midnight Madness schedule as reported, though. Not anymore. Dario Argento and … Continue reading
Latino Review is reporting that they’re hearing that George Miller, the man behind Mad Max, Babe and the huge hit Happy Feet, is being tapped to direct the Justice League movie. All of this makes a lot of sense. Moriarty over at Aint It Cool ran a news item this weekend saying that Warner Bros … Continue reading